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‘ Because of Gracia Local director shoots, opens film in U.S. A movie written and directed by Tom Simes is opening in 32 U.S. theatres on Sept. 15. (Photo Supplied) teen issues. I quit Snow Creek in 1999, but continued to perform plays at Castle Theatre.”

In 2001, Simes wrote a play titled G Factor. It had a successful eight-day run and then the script was tucked away until 2013 when Simes was looking for a screenplay.

He always knew it had potential.

In 2015, Simes went to Louisiana — some would say Louisiana of all places — to make a film based on that play. He had a budget of $1 million, which is peanuts in the movie industry, but about as good as it gets for an independent filmmaker.

On Sept. 15 that movie, Because of ` Gracia, will open in 32 theatres in the United States. The release could have been much bigger — 500 theatres — but Simes

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The faith-based movie has won a tonne of awards during the past year, both in its genre and outside of it. They include a best director award for Simes at the Lifefest Film Festival and best picture awards at the International Christian Visual Media Awards and the Park City International Film Festival in Utah.

Simes has been teaching school for 27 years and still considers himself more high school teacher than filmmaker. He will watch the premiere of the film at a theatre in Los Angeles. The weekend will be filled with interviews and other media events.

One of the stars of the film, Los Angeles actor Moriah Peters, will be there too.

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From such humble, but creative, beginnings came a passion for theatre and later for film.

Simes started that teaching job in Humboldt in 1989. In 1992, he moved to Saskatoon to teach. He got paid this time, but with his love of drama and storytelling instilled. He was moving away from being a PhysEd teacher and into the world of drama.

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t’s wonderful when Saskaname, I’ll tell you that. In toon people do wondrous fact, he was cast without the things. producer knowing he is Tom’s I would put Tom Simes son. Simes brings a pile of in that category. A movie the comic relief to the movie. He’s Saskatoon high school teacher good. and part-time movie maker The movie touches on a wrote and directed will open number of issues, relevant Sept. 15 in 32 theatres in the to teens and to the rest of us.

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There is a healthy debate about Tom was born and raised evolution versus creation. here, attending Sutherland There is the struggle teens and Westmount elementary have with sexuality. The Editor schools and then Bedford daughter of an overbearing Road Collegiate, where he had father — played brilliantly to listen to Kelly Bowers for four years.

by Saskatoon actor Rachael Hayward He has taught in the city for the better — has to decide whether to do it or not part of 27 years. when pressured by her somewhat slimy Tom shot his movie — Because of boyfriend. ` — in the United States after Gracia The story has a group of “mean girls,” considering Alberta. His home province who aren’t very Christian. They lean wasn’t in the running because of the more to being little devils. Two teachers knockout blow the industry took when are wonderful characters. the film-tax credit was deep-sixed five Tom takes pride in having a strong cast years ago. from top to bottom.

Tom said the U.S. was the right place One pleasant surprise was seeing a to be. He had access to a larger pool of scene with John Schneider. Most will reactors and liked the feel an American member him as Bo Duke of the Dukes of crew brought to the film. It looks and is Hazzard fame. He’s aged well, although acted like a big-budget movie despite I am not sure he could still do those auto Tom only having $1 million to spend. He jumps into the General Lee. There’s a spent it wisely and it went much farther name that’s been in the news. than it would have in Edmonton.

A real reviewer in the U.S. gave the I had a chance to watch the movie late movie a high rating, saying it is not your last week. It is a faith-based teen film that standard Hollywood teen flick. George has won numerous awards both inside Escobar of a site called worldnetdaily. and outside its genre. com says it isn’t a copycat of the teen The acting is stellar and the shootmovies being churned out of Hollywood ing beautiful. The lead, Moriah Peters, in recent years. absolutely lights up the screen with her “This year, a small movie from smile whenever she appears, which is a Canadian filmmaker Tom Simes will try lot. That’s a good thing. It’s her first film to make its mark in a crowded field (of and won’t be her last. teen angst) movies. It’s a fresh note on Peters’ character, Gracia Davis, is a the genre,” Escobar wrote. “Much like its ` Christian and finds there are others at her heroine, Because of Gracia is not afraid high school that share her beliefs but have to take a stand against Hollywood’s low been afraid to admit it. One of those is the standards for teens. It’s a movie that male lead, Chris Massoglia, who plays challenges young people to do better, to Chase Morgan. Morgan is a shy guy who be better, to know better. It’s a challenge ` opens up to Gracia.

It’s a fun relationship. everyone in the audience should aspire to Chase Morgan’s sidekick is played undertake.” `

by Saskatoon actor Brett Simes as OB. We should get to see Because of GraSimes didn’t get the role because of his cia in Saskatoon sometime this fall.

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here are 350 memwere playing partners, and we bers, some of whom decided to try our skills downplay every afternoon town. It was a little house not Mondays through Fridays, at far from where the main depot the Saskatoon Bridge Club – a was. I would call it more of a unique organization because social game as compared to it is one of only two bridge how duplicate bridge is played clubs in North America owned today,” said Schmeiser. by its members.

The Saskatoon club rented Once hooked by the chalspace for a time, but accordlenge of a competitive game, ing to Clarke, “the first time players seldom give it up. we had a space we could call Mary Clarke, a past club our own was in the Travellers’ People manager and director who has Building. We entered the buildbeen a member since 1956, ing through a door in the alley.” has been a witness to the Saskatoon club’s Ken McGuirl, who is considered the growth. She joined because she wanted club founder, for many years contributed to get beyond kitchen table bridge into a weekly column on bridge to the Saskasomething more competitive. toon StarPhoenix.

Lee Von Hagen joined in 1967, and The club relocated later to Eighth liked the activity because “the game Street, in the same building that once itself and the competition keep your head housed Imperial Bowl. Everything was going.” His friend, Ken Connell, joined seemingly going well until the club was in 1969, basically on the advice of Von stunned by a rent increase of twice what it Hagen. was paying.

Peter Gerrard, another active memAlong came a new hero, Allan Tubby, ber, perhaps said it best: “For $6, you a contractor who agreed to build today’s get three hours of entertainment in an quarters in 1976 on Louise Street. Schafternoon. Bridge never gets boring. It meiser said Tubby “built it at a great price is a constant challenge because there are for us.” so many different ways to bid and play a Clarke thinks the price might have hand.” been in the $275,000 range, but “it was a Doug Schmeiser is one who can claim gift for his wife, Madge, who was an avid he shared in a rare piece of Saskatoon bridge player, and a gift for her friends bridge history. He is the only current and the community.” member to have played at the CNR Club members paid off the first mortclubhouse, near the CN Station which gage in 1994. When they added a second once existed in the downtown area where room for players in 2005, they again Midtown Plaza now stands. quickly paid off the mortgage.

“They say the railway men had been The club has been a member of the playing there since 1933. My first games American Contract Bridge League were played on the University of Sas(ACBL) since 1958, a decision which katchewan campus. Otto Lang and I came about because Doug Scott and

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Ken Connell, left, Mary Clarke and Lee Von Hagen have long histories with the Saskatoon Bridge Club. (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) his wife, Mona, Hazel Larson and Jean Drinkle went to a tournament and saw the value of being part of the Manitoba unit of the ACBL. Today Saskatoon is part of a North Saskatchewan unit and part of a region which includes players from Alberta, Manitoba, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada. Saskatoon gets to host a regional tournament every four years.

Andy Anderson, the current club president, is also with the Canadian Bridge Federation. He has travelled to play in national tournaments, which are 10 days long; regionals, which last six days; and the sectionals, which run six times in the province each year.

Coming up soon is an open house on Sept. 9 from 1 to 4 p.m. and a regional tournament from Sept. 11 to 17.

The club has an active education committee which provides training for newcomers, using existing members as mentors.

The biggest change has come through computerization. At each playing table now is a hand-sized machine used to compile the scores, which are fed to the room’s main computer. Results of an afternoon’s play are tabulated virtually before anyone leaves the building.

It’s a far cry from the days years ago when all the results were tabulated manually on large spreadsheets.

“I’ve been up until one and two in the morning, trying to figure out where we lost half a point or a point in our tabulations,” Clarke said.

Jerry Mamer said the club plays an active role in charity events as well.

“There was an event one year where the Saskatoon club raised $7,000 in one day to support Alzheimer’s Canada. A club in Halifax raised more money, but they took about two months to reach their total. We have continued to support Alzheimer’s in recent years and usually contribute $6,000 a year.”

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Brad Wall’s main legacy an attitudinal shift

describe myself as a bistraits and he did what had political citizen, and by to be done. Whether I agreed that I mean I do not fully with him or not, I respected subscribe to a right or left wing him for putting the welfare political ideology. of the province ahead of his The dominant parties in personal (and party’s) political Saskatchewan, being the future.

Saskatchewan Party and New Since the recent announceDemocratic Party, each bring ment of Premier Brad Wall’s value to the table. In an ideal retirement from politics, vitriworld, whichever party forms olic criticism has been directed government would work with toward him and his tenure as Columnist the opposition in a bipartisan our premier. Most of the anger fashion to deliver good goveremanates from the hardship of nance to the people. That would be the the last budget. fabled utopia.

Like others, I did not agree with every My frequent criticisms of politicians cut that was made, but Wall did what he are reserved for those people who ask to had to do, and no doubt it was painful. It serve, and when given the opportunity do was definitely unpopular, and has cost his not live up to the promises made during party political currency province-wide. the campaign or are not prepared to make But the province is in dire financial straits the hard (and often unpopular) decisions and he did what had to be done. after being elected.

I respected him for putting the welfare When thinking back to when former of the province ahead of his personal (and premier Roy Romanow was first elected, party’s) political future. he made the difficult decision to close Thinking back to when Wall was first certain hospitals. As the leader of the elected, our province’s roadways were party that introduced medicare to our hazardous atrocities. His government province, it no doubt was painful, and spent a tremendous amount of money definitely unpopular. It cost his party rebuilding the provincial infrastructure political currency, particularly in rural and we loved him for it. Twinning the Saskatchewan. highway between Saskatoon and Prince But the province was in dire financial Albert was a step toward opening up the

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resource-rich north and its communities (although he failed to build a needed second bridge in Prince Albert).

Wall curbed the outgoing migration of our youth and increased incoming migration by attracting industry and investment to Saskatchewan. He introduced the tax credit savings for new graduates to keep well-educated youth here to build the province of the future. And he did pour more resources into health and education, but there was not, and never will be, enough for those portfolios.

Wall’s government introduced revenue sharing with the municipalities by hiving off 20 per cent of the provincial sales tax and distributing the funds to local governments to help build their communities.

For Saskatoon, that meant revenue of $413.4 million since sharing was introduced in 2007-2008. Add to that the hundreds of millions in provincial funding for three bridges, the art gallery and the children’s hospital, to name but a few such projects.

No other government has shared its revenue in this fashion and for that our city should say thanks. Instead, in tough times when the province cuts grants-in-lieu to the tune of $9 million, the city cries foul and conveniently forgets the earlier generosity.

Wall’s greatest achievement was turning our mentality around. Rather than being the “have not” country mouse, we have become the fat cat. He put our province, and this

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He created a “can do” attitude with our populace and this 10-year ride has sparked life into this province, which I hope our public holds onto regardless of which party forms government. We will weather the financial storms ahead and be stronger and wiser when calm eventually prevails.

As time passes, the “cradle to grave” group will continue to point to Wall’s heartless budget and the Opposition will point to mistakes made, and without doubt there were mistakes made. But every government makes mistakes, and all will continue to make mistakes. Just as we have all made mistakes in life and learned from them, so too will governments. It is the multitude and magnitude of those mistakes that will determine whether they will be re-elected.

In all, I haven’t always agreed with Brad Wall, but I do respect him and appreciate, above all else, his legacy of optimism. I know he will not retire from work, but I offer him my best wishes for a restful and fruitful retirement from politics.

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Dmytryshyn proud to have name as part of diversity message

Darren Steinke Saskatoon Express uane Dmytryshyn will always welcome having his name used to support diversity and inclusion, even when it comes out of the blue.

The 46-year-old former CFL slotback with the Calgary Stampeders, Toronto Argonauts and Saskatchewan Roughriders has been occupied with his duties as a receivers coach with the University of Saskatchewan Huskies football team. The former Huskie player wasn’t aware his name was going to be on a T-shirt the CFL put out to stand for diversity and inclusion.

The T-shirts made their debut during the Roughriders’ 41-8 home victory over the B.C. Lions on Aug. 13 at Mosaic Stadium. Originally set for a fall release, the T-shirts were released weeks in advance in response to riots and racial violence in Charlotteville, Va. “It was a surprise to me, but in a good way,” said Dmytryshyn, whose background is Ukrainian. “It is kind of cool to have your name out there.

“One of the coaches had pointed it out. I just saw the fronts of the shirts during the game, the few little pieces that I saw.

“My wife and kids, they were watching the game at home. They had pointed it out. It was kind of exciting JW082110 James for them to see their names up on the back of the shirts.”

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Huskies assistant coach Duane Dmytryshyn won two Grey Cups with the Toronto Argonauts.

(Photo by Darren Steinke) “It is important to bring people together. It is just an important message to get out. There can’t be room in this world for that hate to be allowed to go on.”

Dmytryshyn said he will be buying the CFL’s diversity T-shirts.

“The kids will want them for sure, and (I need) to have a few to hand out,” he said.

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A day before the Roughriders win, violence erupted at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville that was prompted by the city’s decision to remove a Confederate monument. While hundreds of neo-Nazis, skinheads and Ku Klux Klan members marched with torches in support of “white pride,” hundreds of counter-protesters objected to what was going on.

A 20-year-old man named James Alex Fields Jr. is accused of plowing his car into counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyer, 32.

Due to working at Huskies’ camp, Dmytryshyn played catch up with what was going on in the news.

When he became aware of why the CFL released their diversity T-shirts early, he was happy to have his name associated with the cause.

The T-shirts have “Diversity is Strength” on the front and list the names of numerous CFL alumni on the back from various religious and ethnic backgrounds.

Two of Dmytryshyn’s grandparents came to Canada from Ukraine, and two were born in Canada.

“We’re proud to be Canadians, but lots of us came from somewhere else,” said Dmytryshyn, who was part of the Argonauts’ Grey Cup championship teams in 1996 and 1997. “It is about that tolerance and acceptance and seeing all those names on there, all those different nationalities.

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Trump has to go before it’s too late

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met two men from Boston That kind of thing. (Someone last week, when I was in should hire me as an ambasCalgary “on business,” as sador. Just saying.) they say.

I’m digressing (who, me?)

When this Cowtown travel a bit. The point is that these thing happens to me, I stay at two were charming, intela charming bed and breakfast ligent, engaged and really very near the funky boulevard interesting men from the of Kensington. (It’s much United States. And they were, cozier and less expensive importantly, horrified and emthan the downtown hotels, barrassed by their president. and I am now friends with the Our conversation reColumnist owner.) garding Trump was largely I stumbled downstairs for focused on his aggressive the breakfast part, and my heart sank, a handling of the North Korea issue. We little, to see two men at the table. I was generally agreed it was quite frightening feeling, um, uncommunicative. I had that Trump was threatening them with hoped to have the time to myself. “fire and fury” the likes of which the Well, thank goodness for these two. world has never seen. I rather thought I will call them Tom and Will. Both of my breakfast mates should move to them were (extremely) well-educated Canada, which is partly why I was givworld travellers, who happened to be ing them the “Saskatoon is soooo cool” hiking the Rockies and doing other speech. Not that we’re necessarily out various things in Western Canada. This of missile range, but we’re not quite as was their last day out here, before flying likely to be a target. home.

This week, after Trump’s response to We ended up having a fantastic the Charlottesville, Virginia nightmare, conversation. Darla Lindbjerg and Steve it helped me to remember Tom and Will.

McLellan (CEOs of the Greater SaskaIt’s hard to remember, sometimes, that toon and Saskatchewan Chambers of the United States is not defined by the Commerce, respectively) would have egomaniacal, warmongering nut running been very proud of me. I talked up our the show. There are lovely, intelligent, ag biotech cluster (Will is a chemist, sensitive and sane people living in this working in biotech) and our synchrocrazy nation that’s trying to rip itself tron. Our history in canola development. apart.

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You’ll recall that there was a planned protest by the far-right faction over the decision to remove a statue of General Robert E. Lee, a symbol of the Confederacy’s fight to retain slavery. Far-right, of course, doesn’t cut it as a descriptor of the violent, neo-Nazi, white supremacist bunch that showed up. Opposing demonstrators also turned up, and the entire event spiralled out of control, ending in the death of a 32-year-old woman on the “left” side, Heather Heyer. Who should have a monument erected in her memory, really.

Who was at fault at the moment remains up for some debate, if you listen to Trump. He has accused the “alt-left” of coming in and “swinging clubs” at a protest planned by the other side.

Well, the other side killed a woman and injured several other people. But who started what is beside the point.

The point is that there are aggressive, violent, racist people increasingly showing their faces and their POVs in an increasingly divided America. They think it’s safe and fine to do so, and that’s because Trump has created the environment for these views to flourish within.

This is about leadership. This leader sows the super-right-conservative seeds, and society reaps the whirlwind. Although he has condemned the violence perpetrated by the far right, it took him DC082109 far too long toDarlene do so —after accusing

“all sides” of participating. He only came out after enormous condemnation, and likely some intense back and forth with Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

(Did you know his full name is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III? Those southern roots run deep . . . but Sessions, somewhat sane, denounced the racism.)

Then Trump retreated to his first position and said some more words that were roundly applauded by former KKK leader David Duke.

This is today’s America, at the hands of a man who is almost impossible to describe without using an entire dictionary of epithets. Fundamentally, someone must order a full psychological examination of the president. But who has that power?

I have no idea when it becomes possible to impeach a president due to insanity or mental defect, in the way people are not criminally sentenced in court for similar mental issues. But Dear God, someone pull it together (Republicans, are you there?) and save us all from this maniac. He has exploded the peace of the American people, and may explode the peace of us all.

Even Kim Jong-un, a similarly unhinged leader of a very scary country, knew when to step back on his threats to nuke Guam. Donald Trump has managed to trump the heretofore craziest leader on Earth. That’s insane.

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s we enter the twilight as capable of supporting “up of the summer season to 150 lbs.” and boasts “8 (every year it arrives heavy-duty moulded wheels, right on schedule, and every a durable powder-coated year we marvel at how it steel folding frame and could possibly have arrived telescoping handle. Polyso fast), I have a couple of ester lining with reinforced observations about the season bottom. It features two cup gone past. holders and one big storage For some reason it didn’t pouch to hold a beach umoccur to me until this summer brella, chair or towel.” how utterly ridiculous is the And let me tell you, we Columnist amount of crap we parents use every powder-coated haul to the beach for our kids steel inch of that wagon. to enjoy a day of sand and sun. This We stuff it with food and drink, beach really hit home for me when I looked chairs, blankets and towels, beach toys, over, one day, and noticed a gaggle of sunscreen and other various medicated teenaged girls spread out on the beach items to treat bites, burns, stings and next to us. Each one was lying on a any other ailments or injuries that towel, and in the middle they had placed may befall my kids. Then there’s the small portable speakers, which one of floaties: sharks, donuts, flamingos and them was presumably controlling from unicorns, oh my! We look like a carniher cellphone, given all four of them val parade. were engrossed in their tiny screens I’m not going to lie. Sometimes, by pretty much the entire time. Beyond that the time I get that gong show packed up each one had a pair of impossibly tiny and ready to haul to the beach, I take shorts and what was likely a fifty dollar one look and make my kids repack evwater bottle (seriously, it’s a thing). erything into my SUV and we drive.

When it came time for the young My other observation is something ladies to leave, they each stood up, that has changed my life . . . coconutpulled on their shorts, rolled up their dipped soft ice cream cones. Seriously, mats and walked away otherwise unen- where have these been all my life? It’s cumbered. I mean, even when I was a like the chocolate dip, which forms that teenager I don’t think it was that easy. If delicious, crackly outer shell on the soft you wanted to listen to music, you had ice cream, but more of a burnt-caramel to bring something to listen with, and flavour inflected with toasted coconut. music to listen to. If you wanted to read That description doesn’t really do it something, you had to bring that with justice, and if you’re not a coconut fan, you too. God forbid you wanted to make this isn’t for you. But it is definitely for a phone call; that meant finding a phone me, and I’ve noticed a few other friends booth, for heaven’s sake. It was torture, posting about it from other lakes.

I tell you.

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(Continued from page 1) imes says much of the content in the script came through teaching experiences. Everyone knows that guy — or was that guy — who was too nervous to phone the girl of his dreams. There is that guy starring in the film.

“I remember writing the play and the whole premise was this Christian kid named Chase Morgan, who was a composite of all of kids I taught over the years,” Simes said.

“He’s this shy kid who really wanted to call this attractive girl up for a date. I remember writing that first scene and laughing to myself at this kid trying to talk to this girl. And as that scene unfolded all of a sudden there was another scene. It was like dominoes.”

He said there are pitfalls that have to be avoided in making a faith-based film.

“One of the dangers that faith-based films have is they start with a theme or a message they want to tell an audience and they somehow try to figure out a story around it. What I did was I just wrote a story. And the story found an audience.

“I think what has been intriguing for audiences and the reason people are really interested in Because of Gracia is because it is a story; it’s not a message. And if you happen to get a message out of the film it is because the story leads that direction, not because of the other way around.

“It doesn’t come across as disingenuous or didactic or saying, ‘I want you to believe something,’ but it still deals with these teen issues around sexuality that are really personal and relevant for kids. But the film doesn’t tell you what to believe about them; it shows you what happens with these kids.”

In a nutshell, Chase Morgan, the guy struggling to call the girl of his dreams, would like to live up to his own name and pursue something great, according to the synopsis on the movie’s website — becauseofGracia.com. Things change when a new student arrives at the school. Gracia,

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who comes with a dark past, challenges her friends, teachers and even herself to step outside the status quo. Because of her strength, those around her find it easier to speak up and fall in love. ` char“I’ve had students like (the Gracia acter) almost every year I teach,” Simes said.

“They have almost this supernatural impact on everyone around them just because they are different in a good way.”

The movie was originally set to premiere in August 2016. Simes pushed the date forward a year, given the distractions in the U.S. such as a pesky presidential election.

“It was a hard decision for us, but we put everything on hold,” he said. “It was hard for me personally because of our investors. The ones who had invested three years ago had been waiting for three years for this film to come out.”

He said 90 per cent of the investors are from Saskatchewan and he is thankful for their faith and patience.

“When we put it on hold I realized this was the best decision we could make. What I did was I ended up going down to the U.S. last summer and doing drone shots that I added to the film. It made it look like it was a more expensive film. It took us from that $1-million (looking) independent film to that $5-million film.”

He said he also changed marketing firms along the way.

“That made a huge difference for us. We started looking at this idea that maybe we shouldn’t open in 500 theatres. Maybe we should open in a much smaller number of theatres and see if we can grow it out slowly.

“The game plan we came up with was we were going to open in 20 theatres. We were ` thinking September this year and we found our date – Sept. 15 – right in the middle of the month. It’s a team drama, comedy romance and school’s just starting up. It seems like a great time of year for kids to watch a high school film.”

` Tom Simes on the set of Because of Gracia.

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Simes ended up deciding on 32 theatres.

He said The Big Sick used a similar strategy earlier this summer.

“It started in five theatres, then went to 71 and then to 300 and eventually to 2,000 theatres.”

The Big Sick did $435,000 on that first weekend, but has since reached more than $36 million at the box office.

Simes picked Louisiana for shooting after considering Edmonton.

“The thing that pushed us over the edge was by shooting it in the U.S., we saved ourselves about $4 million. We were going to shoot it in Edmonton and area, but we were going to be dealing with union work. In Louisiana if your budget is under $1 million, you could go non-union.”

He said his original marketing group introduced him to a producer named Lisa Arnold, who is from Louisiana.

“She had lots of experience and looked at the rough cut we had shot and looked at the script and saw tonnes of potential. She happened to have an opening in her schedule in February and March in 2015. She contacted us and said, ‘I love it. I would love to do

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What that did for us (is) it forced us to decide first of all, do we want to shoot it in the U.S.? If we do, it is definitely going to be an American film and have an American feel.

“My first four features have been what I call local films. Season of Dreams (a story about the 2007 Roughriders road to winning the Grey Cup) found a much larger audience, nationally and internationally, because of the Roughriders, but this is my first move into the American market. It feels right. I don’t feel intimidated going into the American market and trying to find an audience in the U.S. I’m very excited about that.”

Saskatoon movie buffs will have to wait to see the film.

“I really want the film to come to Canada, this is my home and many, many people have asked about a release here so that is the hope. People can keep checking our website for more details on that, but for sure we are going to do a Saskatoon theatrical release at some point later this fall.”

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Bells jingling evoke childhood memories

and spent extra time with me ven from a distance I to teach me the language. can hear the bells.

Maybe it was because I was The sound of the so young, but I picked up the bells has always stuck in my language pretty fast. memory. After a short stint The following year, Grade in a residential school, I was 2, the students from the allowed to enroll in a day reserve were allowed to atschool. tend the public school in the The residential school on closest town. This time a real my reserve was being phased school bus would pick me out when I started my journey up. This was more terrifying towards a formal education.

Columnist than going to my first day at After the century-old school the day school because now closed, First Nations students I was leaving home and going to a town were placed in a day school. This is school. where the white kids who lived on the I remember, once again, mentioning reserve went to school. There were, and still are, many non-First Nations fami- that my clothes wouldn’t be as nice as the other students. Also, back then, stulies that lived on my reserve.

First Nations students were allowed dents had Batman or Superman on their lunch kits. I didn’t have a lunch kit. to go home from the day school at the Once again my mother assured end of the day. This was completely different from the residential school, where me everything would be fine. When I awakened the morning of my first day the students were fenced in and everyof school in town, I found a suit hangone slept in a dorm. ing over a chair. It was a pair of pants, The other difference was that stua blazer and a vest. The colour of the dents were allowed to wear “normal” suit was lime green. This was in the late clothes, whereas the residential school 1960s and the colour of the suit was in. students had to wear a uniform from For a lunch kit, my mother cut holes material that was the same as a horse into the lid of a Tenderflake lard pail blanket. and filled it with bannock and moose My first day of going to the day school was an experience. I was terrified meat sandwiches.

Looking back now, I think it probbecause I only spoke Cree, and more ably looked amusing to see a First Naimportantly, at least to me, because I tions student standing by an old gravel didn’t have nice clothes like the other road with a lime green suit holding a students. small lard pail. But you would be hard However, my mother kept reassurpressed to find a prouder student, a little ing me everything would be fine and I looked just fine in what I was wearing. boy who looked forward to going to school almost every day for the rest of We lived a distance from the day school. Some of the students had parhis young years.

I not only looked forward to the ents who owned vehicles, but my mom formal aspect of education, but I also (who was single by then) did not. I would be getting picked up by a horse- enjoyed the life lessons. Around Grade 4 I started trading my bannock and drawn wagon.

It was late fall and the cold was start- moose meat sandwiches with a white ing to set in. I waited a long time by an kid who always had “fancy” sandwiches like peanut butter and jelly. old gravel road until I heard the sound He loved my bannock and moose of the bells. The bells were a part of the horse’s harness and their sound could be meat. I met the kid about 25 years later and he weighed over 300 pounds. I heard from a long distance away. blame myself for his weight problem.

It was always fun to jump onto the It’s been an incredible journey, but wagon and see the other students. On education is my passion. Even today one side of the wagon was a small wood-burning stove where the students I am driven to learn. For a kid who started life speaking only one language, huddled to keep warm. But it was the bells that made the ride enjoyable. In a I can now speak seven. I also learned sign language (mostly for my cousin slow and steady beat, the bells would who doesn’t speak or hear) and, just for ring in time with the horse’s strut.

Sometimes the students would jump the hell of it, I learned the Morse code (mostly because one of my first girloff the wagon and hang on as we slid friend’s last name was Morse). across the snow with our feet. All the Today when I walk by a school, students on the wagon spoke Cree, so especially on the first day, I look around it was one of the best times of my first and see if I can spot that First Nation year in school. kid with a lime green suit and a lard pail My first interest was learning Engfor a lunch kit. lish. I wanted to know what the other I wonder if he hears the bells of the students were saying and really wanted to be a part of the fun they were having. horses.

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• Back to School • Fall Activties Scrimshaw said Dakota culture is being celebrated at the school.

“In Chief Whitecap, there is a cultural room that was designed in collaboration with community members from Whitecap.

When you walk into the school, you will see some of the history of the area and Saskatchewan on the walls that is stunningly beautiful.”

Colette Bourgonje School is in Rosewood and has a projected enrolment of 290 students. However, that projection is expected to be surpassed for the school named after the celebrated Paralympian.

“If you look at the four names we have given to our schools, certainly the diversity of the accomplishments and background of the four namesakes was a way for us to represent many of the values in our school division.”

“We are thrilled to have Colette as the namesake of that school for all of the reasons she has been successful athletically, but also because she has been a significant person in our school division as a teacher and role model.”

As in all schools, the principal of Colette Bourgonje School has been working with the staff and families to build the school’s Dakota culture is being celebrated at Chief Whitecap School in Stonebridge (Photo Supplied) community before the doors have opened.

Ernest Lindner School, located in Hampton Village, will feature the artwork of this talented Saskatoon painter who lived from hat’s in a name?

Chief Whitecap School is located in the Chief Whitecap is 640 students.

1897 to 1988.

There’s a lot when it came to booming Stonebridge neighbourhood.

“It will be a large school and we know “It’s our plan to ensure that when you naming Saskatoon’s four new “It is an exciting build for us because of it will be the heart of the Stonebridge com- walk into Ernest Lindner School, what public elementary schools. our educational partnership with the White- munity.” you see immediately would be some of the Chief Whitecap, Colette Bourgonje, cap Dakota First Nation. We are bringing Currently, Whitecap students in pre-K artwork he has produced that we are lucky Ernest Lindner and Sylvia Fedoruk schools together students from the Stonebridge and to Grade 4 attend the elementary school on enough to have in our division.” are sitting in wait for the first students to Whitecap communities to support their learn- Whitecap before transitioning to a SaskaThe school expects to have an initial enarrive. There is diversity in the talents and ing and growth in this beautiful new school,” toon public school for Grade 5 and beyond. rolment of 590 students but will continue to contributions of those for whom the schools said Charlene Scrimshaw, a superintendent Now starting in Grade 5, Whitecap students grow as it meets the demand in the thriving have been named, just like there will be a of education with Saskatoon Public Schools. will be bused to Chief Whitecap School to neighbourhood diversity among students and staff.

She said the projected enrolment at continue their education.

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(Continued from page 10) crimshaw said a school in Hampton Village is long overdue but has already been embraced by the community. Within hours of the construction fence being removed this summer, youth were playing basketball on the tarmac behind the school.

“I remember talking about a school in Hampton Village 10 years ago and here we are finally able to offer the community what it deserves, which is a beautiful new school.”

Sylvia Fedoruk School is located in Evergreen. It is expected to have 460 students when it opens.

“It’s a wonderful location with a lot of green space in the Evergreen area. It is a great opportunity for staff to work with students outside the classroom, as is the case in all of the schools.”

She said it is important that students learn about their school’s namesake, which will be done through the celebration of learning and excellence in the building “With Sylvia Fedoruk’s significant contributions to science and athletics, you are going to see the school valuing those strands specifically. But you will also see an emphasis on her work within the community.”

Scrimshaw is pleased with the names selected for the schools and the pride students will take in them. Each namesake is not only inspiring for professional achievements, but also a

dedication to good citizenship.

“The students and staff will be able to learn about and articulate the specific contributions the four namesakes have made to their community.”

In the big picture, it’s an exciting time for all of those involved in these mega-projects, Scrimshaw said. This is the first time in the school division’s more than 100-year history that it has opened four schools on the same day.

She said it was a huge task, but it gave administrators the opportunity for more collaboration between various departments and the school staffs. She likened it to putting together a massive puzzle times four with all departments in the division putting the pieces in place.

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There is a gymnasium, a large community room, office space, and a meeting space available for the local community association’s use. Each joint school facility also holds a 90-space child care facility.

“With child care, community spaces and two schools, these facilities are truly focused on supporting children and families and will remain hubs for these neighbourhoods for generations to come.”

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Building community essential at Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools

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n our growing city, it can at times be easy to dismiss the timeless wisdom contained in the adage, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Sure, we’re not quite a massive metropolis, but the gap between the Bridge City and a village seems just as big. Does using community instead of village give the phrase fresh meaning?

At Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools, we believe community is so important in educating and raising children that being a welcoming community of faith, hope, and love is embedded in our mission, vision and belief statements.

Just as Jesus asked, “Who is my neighbour?” in the parable of the good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), we take a broad, inclusive view of community.

As the first educators of their children, parents place a tremendous amount of trust in teachers and staff. That trust is reciprocated by creating and fostering an environment in which everyone can have a sense of belonging—a school community.

At every school, parents and educators bond together to create a unique community. The many hours spent volunteering in classrooms, for extra-curricular events, fundraising, and in so many more ways— both within the structure of the Catholic School Community Councils and outside of the formal structure—gives much needed support for students, teachers and staff, and each other.

Spreading beyond the walls of the school, many community partnerships, both formal and informal, support our education-

al goals, and the growth and development of our students.

Partners like the Saskatoon Tribal Council (STC), the Central Urban Métis Federation Inc. (CUMFI) and the Office of the Treaty Commissioner assist us in Treaty education for our students and staff, provide support for our First Nations and Métis learners, and walk with us all along the path of reconciliation.

The Saskatoon Health Region and other health partners give a broader perspective on physical development, community health and nutrition.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon and the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon help students and families grow as part of a broader faith community.

There are too many groups, organizations, businesses and corporations that help form our learning community to list—and we are grateful for the unique contributions of each of them.

Being a responsible community member is more than just benefiting from other members of your community. While we are fortunate to benefit, strong ties to the community challenge our students’ perspective of what belonging to a community is all about and how they contribute to it. They learn to see that relationships are important and that they can make a difference—in their school, in their neighbourhood and city, in the world.

Our Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools’ community is rooted in faith, growing in knowledge, and reaching out to transform the world.

Our goal is to see all children and youth discover, develop and act upon their potential.

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#YXEArt features city’s fine art exhibitions

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ne of the great things ages all citizens to do exactly about living in Saskathat – sketch Saskatoon. The toon is the diversity and directions are simple: head to strength of our arts community. the downtown library, sketch a During any given week, there picture of what Saskatoon means are numerous musical and theto you and then hang it on the atrical performances to take in. wall for all to see. The materials There is also a robust visual arts needed to create the art are procalendar, with interesting exhivided; people just need to bring bitions on offer at Saskatoon’s their time and creativity. galleries throughout the year.

A recent walk through the This column, #YXEArt, will gallery showed a wide range #YXEArt periodically explore some of the of pieces created by people of exciting and thought-provoking various ages and with varying art exhibitions that are organized at our artistic experience. Kirk Sibbald, senior local galleries – including the city’s large marketing and communications specialist and small, and public and private, institu- with the Saskatoon Public Library (SPL), tions. This week, I will share information said The Gallery at Frances Morrison Cenabout two very different exhibitions I tral Library has provided many opportunivisited recently at the Saskatchewan Craft ties for emerging artists to showcase their Council Gallery and at The Gallery at the art throughout the years (as well as numerFrances Morrison Central Library. ous opportunities for established artists), so ****** SPL “thought it would be interesting to give When you think of Saskatoon, what an artistic stage to individuals of all ages comes to mind? Is it a physical attribute, and abilities from across the city.” Sketchsuch as the South Saskatchewan River, ing Saskatoon does just that. the beautiful University of Saskatchewan As of last week, Sibbald said about campus or one of the city’s bridges? Or, is 300 original works of art had been comit more of a concept or a feeling, such as a pleted during the DIY show, with many sense of community or feeling “at home” in other works still in the in-progress basket. your surroundings?

People continue to come into the gallery You are invited to share your thoughts daily, he said, with the show set to run about the city you live in with others, thanks until Aug. 24. to the latest exhibition at The Gallery at the Even if you don’t want to sketch SasFrances Morrison Central Library. Saskatoon katoon, it’s still worth heading down to Public Library’s self-described “DIY art the second floor of the downtown library show,” called Sketching Saskatoon, encour- to check out other people’s creations and

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Sketching Saskatoon is a show at Frances Morrison Library. (Photo by Shannon Boklaschuk) to get a sense of how your neighbours perceive our city. ****** If you’re less interested in amateur art and more interested in professional work, you may want to check out the latest exhibition at the Saskatchewan Craft Council Gallery on Broadway Avenue. The exhibition, aptly entitled 82, features 82 gorgeous pieces that are on display in celebration of the 82nd birthday of Saskatchewan ceramist Jack Sures.

Sures, who lives in Regina, has been described by the craft council as “legendary,” and as “one of Canada’s most important and influential ceramic artists.” Sures is certainly prolific; he continues to create every day, and has said that working with clay “incites you toAS082119 be active, alive and continue to improve.”

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In a recent interview with the Saskatoon Express, Sures said the 82 pieces included in the show are considered his best from the last two years (although he noted there are a few dating back to 2014 and 2015). The pieces vary in size and scale, from large plates and footed bowls to smaller bottles, jars and dishes.

The exhibition runs until Sept. 9 at the Saskatchewan Craft Council Gallery, located at 813 Broadway Ave. For more information, visit saskcraftcouncil.org or check out the hashtag #JackSures82 on social media.

(Do you have comments on this column or suggestions for future editions of #YXEArt? Email Shannon Boklaschuk at shannonboklaschuk@gmail.com).

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Dufresne strives to be different in competitive furniture industry

Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express raig Hickel says being part of an organization such as Dufresne Furniture & Appliances is much more than managing the company’s 14 stores.

Hickel, the vice-president of Dufresne, said his absolutely favourite day of the year is the night disadvantaged children get to have a massive sleepover at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg.

The children get to hang out with the Blue Bombers on the field, have a pizza party with the team and gather autographs. After a movie on the Jumbotron, the kids turn in for the night in a bed with lots of swag sitting on top.

“And then the next morning we come in and say, ‘By the way, the bed you were sleeping on is yours.’ At that moment it’s awesome.”

Dufresne opened a Saskatoon store last week. For every bed it sold during its opening, another one went to a city charity.

Hickel said the company had been eyeing Saskatoon for quite some time.

“We think the demographic of customer base fits our brand,” he said while sitting on a sofa in the showroom. “It’s a vibrant community.”

He said his company isn’t just another furniture store. Despite a boutique feel, it covers 23,000-square feet of floor space.

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we are quite different for a few reasons. One is when you walk into a typical furniture store you’ll see the way they merchandize their store.

You will see a row of dining tables, and you’ll see a row of bedrooms and a row of sofas, etc. We don’t do that.

“We merchandize our stores in what we call collections or styles. The reason

we do that is because we know furniture shopping can be difficult, and we want to help ease the pain. We will merchandize a particular style of sofa that will match a dining room set that will match a bedroom set, so our customer can visualize what that would look like in their house in that unique style.”

The store has three styles: Casual Comfort, Modern Luxe and Vintage Charm.

Hickel said Dufresne is using modern technology wherever it can. One spot is when it comes to selling a mattress.

He said the company uses a computer program to tailor a mattress to fit the customer.

He said Dufresne uses a test bed and does computer diagnostics.

“Once we get that diagnostic on a customer’s body type in terms of how they fit on the mattress, then we can tailor the mattress to remove those pressure points to ensure a great night’s sleep. We are very proud of that.”

Hickel said the technology has been available for a few years.

Larry Millar (left), Krista Boulding and Kraig Hickel sit in the showroom at the new Dufresne store. (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)

“We haven’t seen anybody really leverage it in Canada. We learned it from a U.S. retailer, adopted it and brought it into Canada.”

Hickel said the company also makes use of computer technology when selling appliances.

“We walk our guests through a computerized assessment because we want to understand how we take that sea of products and really get down to the specific needs of our guest. We have a rating system on our appliances, and we will match a specific product to their needs.

We are trying to understand what is most important. We are trying to dissect this through this computerized program.”

The Saskatoon store employs 17 people, including manager Krista Boulding. She has worked in the industry in Saskatoon for 12 years before making the jump to Dufresne.

“It has been a fantastic opportunity. I moved over to this company and haven’t looked back. It’s been very welcoming. I have been more appreciative of this company in six months than I was in 10 years

with my other job.”

Hickel said the company prides itself in its custom work, its delivery system and its service. Dufresne offers what is called a White Glove service. With it, a piece of furniture is delivered and built.

The service includes hauling previouslyused pieces away.

The Dufresne company has Saskatchewan roots. Owner Doug Dufresne was born in rural Saskatchewan and lived in the province for a brief time before moving to Kenora, Ont. There he and his wife Eva opened their first store. That was back in 1986.

Seven people worked at that first store.

The company now employs about 400 people.

One of Doug and Eva’s three sons, Mark, is the CEO of the company, while his two brothers — Shaun and Mike — each have management positions.

The Saskatoon store is located at 102810 Circle Drive East. It can be reached at 306-653-1736. For more information, visit dufresne.ca. Dufresne is also on Facebook.

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National softball action returns to Saskatoon

John Lynch for the Saskatoon Express askatoon is about to take centre stage yet again in the world of softball with another premier event.

For the sixth time since the Canadian Fast Pitch Championship came into being in 1965, Saskatoon will be hosting the national senior event and a master’s competition from Aug. 30 to Sept. 3. The last time Saskatoon hosted this event was in 2008 and the Saskatoon Aspen Interiors emerged as champions.

“We are number one in hosting world softball championships,” event chairperson Bryan Kosteroski said. “We have a very active volunteer base and the best facilities in North America for hosting these events.”

For Newfoundland and Labrador, six is also a key number this year. The Galway Hitmen from St. John’s will be chasing a record sixth consecutive senior men’s championship. Last year, they hosted and won the event, beating another NL team in the final.

“To be truthful, we go everywhere to win,” Galway Hitmen coach Mark Dwyer said. “We have no other motive but to win gold. We have some of the most outstanding players in the country on our squad.”

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tournament in 2015, and Newfoundland and Labrador played a huge role in that event. Besides having the most players from one province on the squad, one of them, Stephen Mullaley, set a record in that tournament, hitting three home runs including a grand slam and driving in seven runs to power Canada to a 10-5 win in the championship game.

“We had a record 7,600 people come to games on July 1 (2015),” Kosteroski said. “It was a spectacular tournament, especially the way Canada came back to win it all.”

Bob Van Impe Stadium, Joe Gallagher Field and Glen Reeve #3 are the venues for this event. The five-day tournament will feature 12 teams with 50 games being played over five days, culminating in the championship on Sept. 3.

The teams participating include the defending champion Galway Hitmen, Bruno Merchants, Delisle Diamond Dogs, Saskatoon Poly Plus, Chetty’s Pretty Boy Mastodons, North Battleford Petro Hawks, Bulyea Rustlers, Imma Tigers, Grande Prairie Pirates, as well as teams from Nova Scotia, British Columbia and Manitoba.

For further information, go to www. softball.ca and follow the links.

Dakota Days set for weekend on Whitecap Sport Grounds

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or over two decades the Whitecap Dakota First Nation has been hosting its annual Dakota Days on the Whitecap Sports Grounds, a summer event showcasing chuckwagon and chariot races, and a competitive slo-pitch tournament offering a number of lucrative cash prizes, including $2,500 for the winner.

“Whitecap Dakota’s First Nation’s Dakota Days has been running for over 20 years,” said organizer Sheila Chrusch, who is working alongside Chelsey Sinclair to organize the slo-pitch tournament, and local Whitecap Dakota elder and Senator Melvin Littlecrow, who is in charge of the chuckwagon and chariot races. “We’ve had teams enter from all over Saskatchewan, as well as from Alberta and Manitoba in previous years.”

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are being capped at 16 teams, and the deadline for entering is Aug. 23. The team entry fee is $400, with at least three games per team guaranteed. The event kicks off on Aug. 26 and runs through the following day.

Admission is $10 per day, or $15 for a weekend pass, with every adult receiving a Dakota Dunes Casino Free Play coupon upon paid admission. Children under the age of 12 are admitted free.

“It’s such an awesome weekend of family fun where everyone is welcome to attend,” said Chrusch. “It’s always friendly competition, and the event comes complete with free camping on the Sports Grounds, and entertainment in the beer gardens. It’s an event the Whitecap community looks forward to every year.”

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Cam Hutchinson & Friends: Views of the World

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Here’s why Kaepernick won’t play in the CFL

orben Rolfsen, on B.C. announcing an end to grizzly bear trophy-hunting across the province: “UnforBy RJ Currie tunately it came 17 years too late to save seasons. Now there’s a pitcher with locaop five reasons 51 teams competed tion issues. our NBA team from being poached.” in England’s 12-hour, overnight • Janice Hough, on Marshawn Lynch • I caught the New Zealand women’s lawn tractor race: 5. To make the remaining seated during the national anrugby team doing their pre-game haka cut; 4. They like to kick grass; 3. To go at ritual. I hid under my bed. them at a pre-season game: “At least the a fast clip; 2. Nothing mulch else to do; 1.

Raiders don’t have to worry about him • Victoria Azarenka said a custody The mow, the merrier. dispute with her ex means she can’t play in running his mouth on the subject.”

• Pro golfer and Instagram star Paige • TC Chong, on Conor McGregor the U.S. Open. Sadly, marriages often end Spiranac says the LPGA dress code exists up that way. Major disappointment. wanting gloves that are two ounces lightto “ban her boobs.” Speaking of banned er for his fight with Floyd Mayweather: • Joey Votto’s MVP-like stats — NL boobs: Japan has outlawed performances leader in walks, OBP and OPS — are lost “You’d think he would want four ounces

by Justin Bieber. more so it would accommodate hidden on a bad Reds team. Still, somewhere in • Toronto sportswriter Steve Simmons Japan a fantasy player is saying: Domo brass knuckles.” compared struggling tennis star Eugenie • From the Twitter account of @heerarigato, Mr. Joe Votto.

Bouchard to Anna Kournikova. That’s a jeet: “After The Rebel collapses I hope • A guy sitting behind me on the bus bit unfair — Kournikova isn’t Canadian. really got on my nerves. He wouldn’t stop Ezra Levant finds a more reputable job, • Justin Smoak notched his teammaybe as a geek at a freak show biting following me. leading 33rd homer and 80th RBI in the the heads off chickens.”

• Patriots QB Tom Brady posted a Jays 5-3 win over the Rays. Where there’s picture of himself touching the Stanley • Rolfsen, on Cristiano Ronaldo getSmoak, there’s fire. ting a five-game suspension for shoving Cup. In a related story, the Boston Bruins • The NY Post reports a mollusk named are suddenly favoured to win the NHL an official: “He had a choice of either Larry has won the 2017 World Snail Rac- championship. five games or three weeks without hair ing Championships. If you’ve never seen a products.”

• The largest heart ever seen has gone snail race, think CFL East.

• From Hough: “I guess no one told on display at Toronto’s Royal Ontario • Winnipeg O-lineman Jermarcus those neo-Nazi white supremacists that Museum. I’m guessing it didn’t belong to Hardrick compared their recent last-gasp Harold Ballard. all those Tiki torches were made in victories to having a baby. Bomber fans China.” can only hope that translates to a playoff • From Rolfsen: “The toxicology RJ’s Groaner of the Week birth — er, berth.

Ever notice the acute accents in fiancé report for Tiger Woods May DUI was • Nationals right-hander Edwin Jackson and fiancée? Not yet married and already released. They found five different drugs has changed teams 11 times in the last nine signs of stress. in his system, and a Perkins breakfast.”

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• Would it kill U.S. networks to show a Graham DeLaet shot or two when he is in contention at a tournament?

• From Hough: “Since Trump is decrying loss of ‘beauty’ with these Confederate statues, can we just move them to the grounds of Bedminster and Mar-a-Lago?”

• I love it when an elephant wins against a hunter.

• Rolfsen, on Jacksonville Jaguars rookie RB Leonard Fournette saying the NFL is really easy compared to the SEC: “He’s certainly not talking about classroom work.”

• Buck Martinez and Pat Tabler pointed out during a recent Blue Jays game that Marcus Stroman had the second best ERA in the American League since June 28. I’d like to know what it was on June 27.

• From Chong: “Colin Kaepernick has ruled out coming to the CFL because we don’t play the Star Spangled Banner before games.”

• From Hough: “Wow. In Baltimore four Confederate monuments were taken out of town one night last week almost as fast as the Colts.”

• From the Twitter account of Robin Flavell: “An Islamaphobe, a white supremist and a sexual predator walk into a bar. The bartender says, ‘What will it be, Mr. Trump?’”

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Dear Lianne, I’d like your opinion please. My boyfriend of 7 years is a great guy.

He is kind, loving, generous and unfortunately boring! Our two adult children have gotten into an argument and are forcing us to take sides. Quite frankly, his daughter is being ridiculous. She was staying over and refused to sleep in the room my daughter typically occupies. She said she would sleep on the basement floor which is cement rather than sleeping in my daughter’s

room. My boyfriend approached me and said we would have to switch rooms with her for the night because she felt uncomfortable. I flat out refused to give in to a 32- year old who was having a hissy fit. I end up leaving. He also says that I drink too much He wants us to go for counselling and I say I’ve been there and done that when I was married.

My drinking is not a problem. I like to drink wine and all he likes to do is complain about it. I’m really not sure what to do. – Anna

Dear Anna, Your drinking is a problem. You may not feel as if it is an issue but it most certainly is for your boyfriend.

Often people with drinking issues are the last to recognize that it is a problem.

A trained counselor will help you establish if you are drinking to an excess. You and your boyfriend need to become a united front in the way in which you deal with your adult children.

A resolution could have been found

for the issues both you and your daughter were having. You should not have left. Your boyfriend should not have agreed to switch bedrooms and his adult daughter should have had her bluff called and slept on the cement if the bedroom that was provided didn’t suit her. The disharmony between the two daughters is and will continue to interfere with your relationship. A counselor can teach you how to navigate through all of this without jeopardizing your relationship.

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National Association of Federal Retirees Members’ Corn Boil. Noon at the Floral Community Centre. Members free AUGUST 22 and guests $5. Eligible for membership are all federal retirThe Lyell Gustin Recital Series presents cellist Oleksander ees and employees and their partners including surviving Mycyk and pianist Sofia Mycyk at 7:30 p.m., at St. Anpartners. Membership is available to departmental workers, drew’s Presbyterian Church (436 Spadina Cres. East). The Armed Forces, RCMP. Please confirm your attendance to program includes music of Bach, Brahms, Paganini, Popper, either 306-374-5450 or 306-373-5812. For more details, and Penderecki. Pre-concert talk by the artists at 6:45 p.m. visit federalretirees.ca and click on Saskatoon Branch. DiTickets $35 regular/$30 student and are available at Mcrections: East on Highway 16 to Floral Road at Agar Corner, Nally Robinson, Yamaha Piano, Saskatoon Music Academy, then south to the Community Centre.

Gustin Committee, or at the door. Children 12 and under free if accompanied by an adult. For information, call 306- SEPTEMBER 17 Annual Senior Fitness Association Sunday Social. Royal 653-8889 or visit www.gustinhouse.ca.

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AUGUST 24 and 26 and dancing to the music of Mr. Music from 7:30 p.m. to Music for the Gut returns for its seventh annual benefit con- 9:30 p.m. There will be a happy hour and games earlier in certs for Crohn’s and Colitis Canada with two unique variety the day from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are $20 and sales end shows at Cornerstone Church at 7 pm. Featuring Jordie on Sept. 13. For more information, phone 306-374-4542 or Hughton and over 50 friends, including Jared Tehse, Paige 306-242-9452.

Summach, Silas Friesen, Sam Stinn and Valerie Favreau (on the 24th) and Jay Semko, Brenden Friesen, Gerard Weber, SEPTEMBER 21 Saskatoon Voices of Recovery Dinner, Prairieland Park.

Tone Down For What barbershop quartet, Cara Wilson, Sophie McBean and Andrew Linsley (on the 26th). Advance Doors open at 5:30, with dinner and a presentation beginning at 6:30 p.m. The guest speaker is Bob Bourne, a tickets at McNally Robinson and Saskatoon Academy of former Saskatoon Blades player and four-time Stanley Cup Music. Discounted combo ticket for both nights are available. For more information, visit www.MusicfortheGut.com winner with the New York Islanders. The event is a celebration of people in long-term recovery from addiction. Visit or call 306-384-4502. picatic.com for tickets.

A Blast from the Past by the band England & Guests. German Cultural Centre(160 Cartwright Street) Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the show starting at 7:30 p.m. Cocktails and light food will be available at a additional cost at 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $25, 55-plus $22. Tickets may be purchased at McNally Robinson Book store 306-955-3599 or the German Cultural Centre 306-244-6869

Saskatoon Voices of Recovery, five-kilometre walk and celebration of Light. Those participating are asked to meet at 5 p.m. at Friendship Park. More information can be found on Facebook at Saskatoon Recovery.

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Saskatoon Overeaters Anonymous Group will hold a public speaker event from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Wildwood Mennonite Church at 1502 Acadia Drive in Saskatoon. For more information about OA, visit www.oa.org.

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nce I’m in the Power Power Wagons come in Wagon, it’s great to four doors and a six-foot, be there. six-inch truck box. This and The seat is comfortable the overall look of the truck and fully power adjustable. would make you think it had All controls are right at an enormous carrying capachand and just about everyity and you would be wrong. thing is a dial-type switch, Load capacity (including from the gear selector to the passengers) is 1510 lb (685 4X4 system. kg). What that means is that The centre console is if there are two of you in the large enough to hold all the truck, the two snowmobiles Autozone office stuff you might ever you have on the deck above have to take on the road and the box can put you into an the console lid could double as a desk overweight situation. top if it had to. The steering wheel is a When it comes to towing, capacity decent size and the push-button starter is rated at 10,030 pounds. As such, the works great, as does the remote starter. factory hitch is a class-five unit solidly All you have to do is remember the mounted and the factory multi-link coil temperature you want it to be when you suspension controls the ride. Up front get in. my test unit had the Ram Articulink Ah, yes, getting in! That proves to be front suspension which allows for up to a bit of a task. The Power Wagon comes 26 inches of vertical wheel travel. When with large 33-inch Goodyear off-road the going gets a bit rocky there is even tires and a lift kit to make the tires fit. a switch to electronically disconnect the That puts the floor height of the front sway bar. I never had to test this Power Wagon roughly at my waist. I’m feature out. sure there are running board or side I did get to try out the hill descent pipe options available, but it seems my control feature and found that it did take six-foot-six factory rep neglected to a lot of willpower to keep my foot off check that out. the brake on steep hills and let the elecMaybe he doesn’t need that extra tronics do the job — and it did the job step, but my stubby (32-inch inseam) well. A side benefit of all this off-road legs mean that every time I get in, it is stuff is that while the descent features a fair-sized leap. Add to that, all there is and such may not be used often, the Arto hang onto is the steering wheel. The ticulink suspension and large tires did other three doors all have a grab handle make even the largest of potholes and to help you make that leap. patches of broken pavement on rural On the upside, I found that I had to roads seem smooth. keep the truck clean to keep dirt, dust There was one other feature I didn’t and mud from rubbing off on my cloth- get to use and that is the 12,000 pound ing.

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(Continued from page 18) warn winch that is so neatly integrated into the front bumper. That winch and a well thought out “off-road kit” would make sure that the Power Wagon could go just about anywhere with ease. That winch is also the reason there is no diesel option. The intercooler for the Cummins will not fit in behind the winch.

My driving was pretty much confined to our roads and streets. In city traffic, one should never discount the intimidation factor of driving such a large vehicle, but you have to remember that the ability to drive over some bonehead weaving from lane to lane and cutting you off doesn’t mean you should — no matter how tempting.

In traffic, the 410 hp. 6.4 hemi is actually quite docile and easy to drive. Variable valve timing does mean that if you see a gap in traffic, you can get to it at near warp speed. Clover leaf interchanges or entrances and exits to Circle Drive can be handled with ease. I never once felt uncomfortable pushing the Ram if I had to make it fit in with the flow of traffic.

Not feeling uncomfortable might be the key to summing up the Power Wagon. I was always comfortable enough to not mind the leap up to get in.

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New vehicle technology assists with large animal detection

Jim Kerr

of June, July and August having the highest rate of collisions.

Vehicle technology is helping mitigate collisions as well. Cadillac and MercedesBenz both have “night vision” systems on vehicles that use infrared heat detection cameras to detect warm objects and display images to the driver long before they can be seen in the headlight beams. The latest technology comes on Volvo’s new 2017 S90 sedan that features the Pilot Assist II system to help drivers avoid collisions with large animals along with other driver assists.

Pilot Assist was first introduced on Volvo’s XC90 SUV and the system on the S90 sedan has some major safety enhancements. For XC90 owners with Pilot Assist, there are software upgrades coming that will provide new capabilities, as well. The large animal detection portion of Pilot Assist uses standard radar and camera units to detect a large animal. It is active from four kilometres per hour and up and has a range of about 200 metres.

A large animal is detected by the computer calculating the density of the object. It also uses depth of field imaging to determine if the animal is stationary, moving away from the road or towards the

road. When a danger is sensed, the system will alert the driver with an audible warning and flash a visual warning with a group of LEDs on the dash near the base of the windshield. The visual warning is impossible to miss.

If the driver does not react, the car will automatically brake up to 30 per cent of braking capability down to a speed of 15 kph. Thirty per cent of braking will slow the vehicle significantly while still giving time for a driver in another car behind you to react as well. While the collision with the animal may not be avoided completely, the impact will be significantly reduced, minimizing vehicle damage and more importantly, reducing possible injuries to vehicle occupants.

Volvo’s Pilot Assist II can also control acceleration, braking and steering up to 130 kph to help keep the S90 in its lane at speed and includes run-off-road mitigation to keep the vehicle on the road. The driver remains in control and can override the system at any time.

Pilot Assist II from Volvo is one of the new technologies that will help keep us safe and the large animal detection is an important part of that.

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Autozone 25,000 collisions with large What can we do about this? animals each year.

Reductions in these types of Newer provincial data show the number collisions has been found where roadways of collisions is increasing at an estimated have been improved by adding fencing, rate of 7.55 per cent a year. For example, animal overpasses or crossovers, removthe 2014 statistics report from the Insurance ing brush along roadways, draining salty Corporation of British Columbia shows ponds near roads, posting warning signs and that there are about 9,900 animal-related improving highway lighting. collisions every year, with about 80 per We can also drive smarter by undercent of them involving deer. Most of the standing when collisions are more likely. rest involve moose, elk, bear and coyotes.

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